New Federal legislation made all States eligible to provide temporary emergency unemployment compensation benefits, financed entirely by Federal funds, for 13 or 20 additional weeks to unemployed workers who had exhausted their benefits. The emergency benefits program is effective from November 17, 1991, to June 13, 1992. Liberalized provisions were also included for ex-Servicemembers, nonprofessional school employees, and railroad workers. This legislation is Public law 102-164, as amended, enacted on November 15 and December 4, 1991, respectively.
On February 7, 1992, further legislation was enacted (Public law 102-244) that extended the expiration date of emergency benefits …